GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
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rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
shambles | a meat market |
forebears | ancestor |
urge | to present, advocate, or demand earnestly or pressingly |
imbalance | lack of balance : the state of being out of equilibrium or out of proportion |
elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
flinch | to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain : wince |
nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |